of the 2011 gaithersburg book festival with anand giridharadas on india calling: an intimate portrait of a nation s on american history tv on c-span3 from lectures in history, prof. regina williams on the music of duke ellington on american artifacts. a look at the smithsonian s efforts to preserve an exhibit, the jefferson bible and live sunday from jackson. personal mississippi the 50th anniversary of the freedom riders 13 men and women black and white boarded we to buses for new orleans to integrate. get the complete weekend schedule at c-span.org/history or press the c-span alert button to get your e-mail directly to you. and now anand giridharadas and india calling: an intimate portrait of a nation s remaking . good afternoon and welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. ims accounts will member. gaithersburg supports the arts and culture and we are pleasedr this event. surveys are available here at the info desk and on line on our web site. everyone who submits the
were so when the word went out that donovan was looking for warm bodies, anybody s, to help set up and running network of new intelligence bases in india, burma and china, she immediately volunteered. she didn t care where she went, as long as she got to go and there was a man shortage and a newly formed oss was woefully understaffed. it is important thing to remember that when you think of the oss, you generally think about that paramilitary and guerrilla operations. they get all the glory. you know you think of grainy images of agents parachuting behind enemy lines. but the fact of the matter is, of the 13,000 employees, about 4500 of which were women, the vast majority spent their time writing reports, collecting and analyzing information and planning missions. so the fact that many of the oss s unorthodox activities could be conducted from behind a desk meant that women could be equally as effective. and so while the majority of women did remain in washington, helping to